Covax misses its 2021 delivery target – what’s gone wrong in the fight against vaccine nationalism?

Rory Horner, University of Manchester

 

The latest supply forecast for Covax – the programme for sharing COVID-19 vaccines around the world – suggests that accelerating vaccination in low-income countries looks unlikely. Covax estimates it will have distributed 1.425 billion vaccine doses by the end of 2021, significantly less than the 2 billion doses it was aiming for earlier this year.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://sciblogs.co.nz/covid-19/2021/09/20/covax-misses-its-2021-delivery-target-whats-gone-wrong-in-the-fight-against-vaccine-nationalism/